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ERIC Number: EJ1045123
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-May
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-1072-4303
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Palestinian EFL Teachers' Attitudes towards English Textbooks Used at the First Three Grades of Elementary School
Hammad, Enas Abdullah Rajab
TESL-EJ, v18 n1 May 2014
Evaluating language materials is very useful for language teachers, and one essential consideration in evaluating language materials is obtaining the teachers' views on its value (Tomlinson, 2003). Thus, this study aimed to explore Palestinian English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' attitudes towards the different aspects of the English textbooks used at the first three grades of elementary school in Gaza, "English for Palestine." The data of the study were collected through administering a questionnaire to 70 teachers and conducting semi-­structured interviews with 12 teachers selected from the seventy. The results revealed that the participants had positive (high) attitudes towards the English materials in that the topics in such materials were perceived by the teachers to be relevant to pupils' cultural background and needs. However, the teachers had some problems related to the large number of unfamiliar words and the inadequacy of the time devoted to delivering the materials.
TESL-EJ. e-mail: editor@tesl-ej.org; Web site: http://tesl-ej.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Palestine
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